Government Control
World War II was a total war, that is, it was a war that included fighting on civilian territory and in its air space and one in which, to varying degrees, governments controlled and mobilised all their nations' resources to the effort of winning.Total war meant that war dominated people's lives and experiences on the home front. Bombing raids brought the war directly to civilians in Europe, North Africa and Asia. In Russia, the government relocated more than 1500 industrial businesses, along with their workers and equipments, from near its western borders to land thousands of kilometres further east. In Britain, city children were evacuated and moved in with people in the countryside that looked after them for the war period. In Japan, the government encouraged children to relocate from cities to country towns where many high-school students took on factory work.
During World War II the Australian Government took control of many aspects of civilian life. On 9 September 1939 - just a week after the start of World War II - the Commonwealth Government was given wide-ranging powers in teh National Security Act. These controls included restrictions on what people could say, read and do. Most Australians supported these limits on their individual freedom, especially while there was the threat of invasion from Japan. They believed that the controls were necessary to defend Australia and support our military forces who were doing the fighting. The government also appealed to a sense of patriotism and this was another important reason most of the population supported these wartime controls.
During World War II the Australian Government took control of many aspects of civilian life. On 9 September 1939 - just a week after the start of World War II - the Commonwealth Government was given wide-ranging powers in teh National Security Act. These controls included restrictions on what people could say, read and do. Most Australians supported these limits on their individual freedom, especially while there was the threat of invasion from Japan. They believed that the controls were necessary to defend Australia and support our military forces who were doing the fighting. The government also appealed to a sense of patriotism and this was another important reason most of the population supported these wartime controls.
Below is a Walt Disney cartoon created during WWII:
This was a piece of propaganda for children and even though this is American, this is the type of image that allied governments of this time were tying to show citizens.
- How do they portray Nazi Germany?
- What does Donald Duck say at the end?
- What could the creators mean from this phrase?
- What effect would this have had on the people who viewed it?
This was a piece of propaganda for children and even though this is American, this is the type of image that allied governments of this time were tying to show citizens.
- How do they portray Nazi Germany?
- What does Donald Duck say at the end?
- What could the creators mean from this phrase?
- What effect would this have had on the people who viewed it?
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